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dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to beginning of buffer

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 27243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#27243: another case: dired-auto-revert-buffer jumps point to beginning of buffer
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:02:58 -0400

>>> I'm bothered by some feature calling find-file that could somehow
>>> find the file shown in a window different from the one where the
>>> command was invoked.  Are you saying this isn't more likely to
>>> happen than with switch-to-buffer itself?
>> Yes.  Anything else would be an inconsistency we would have to fix.

Actually, when I do C-x C-f from a minibuffer-only frame it would be
wrong to display the file in that (mini) window, so there are
circumstances where it makes perfect sense for find-file to display the
file in another window.


        Stefan

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